Product Description

Notepad is a simple tool that lets you write and edit text notes on Kindle.

Write notes about any subject you wish, from meeting notes to grocery reminders. Jot down quick ideas, phone numbers and addresses, or remember that perfect gift for a special someone.

With Notepad, you can create or view a note with one of two different fonts, and in any of six different font sizes. Your notes can be sorted by date or alphabetically by title. Notepad also allows you to search for text in real-time within the body and title of your notes. Simply start typing in the word you are looking for, and Notepad instantly displays the notes that contain that word. This allows you to find anything you may have previously written, without having to browse through notes individually. Features like copy/paste, text navigation shortcuts and 'persistent shift' (which allows you to type an uppercase letter by pressing Shift and the letter in sequence as opposed to simultaneously) further make typing and editing easy at your fingertips. Use Notepad to take notes on Kindle today!

I have been looking for a few ways to get my notes into the Kindle - since I have had it for about 8 months now - and this "meets" the needs that I had.

Needs:o Quick - it must be quick-- Did I mention that it has to be "Quick"? -- and this is the fastest I've seen on the Kindle - I have about 500MB free (yup - I like books,magazines, etc.) and my kindle is sluggish - but this app works really fast.-- Disclaimer - I've only put in about 50 notes (so far)o Easy to use - this is SUPER easy-- All the key mappings you need are displayed in an intuitive manner - Alt+X (Save and Exit - I really like this)o Copy Notes to my PC and Vise Versa-- The video shows that this can be done - I've yet to try it - but it's a simple copy / paste operationo Font Sizes:-- I am a fan of small fonts and this allows me to use small fonts - to be able to add more noteso Search by Note Title-- This works as advertised - quickly locate notes by titleo Search Notes by Body keyword-- Again, works as advertised - quickly and painlesslyo Saves work in progress (for the "all thumbs folks" (like me)-- I have a tendency to hit the home button - and this saves my "unsaved" note - so I can go back to it - sweeeeet!o Simple, Clean UI:-- This UI reminds me of the Old Palm Days (think Palm Notepad) - but on steroids - so nice to KISS

In a nutshell, this is worth $0.99 many times over,.... BUT only if you are looking for a Quick, Easy and Intuitive UI that allows you to enter notes on your Kindle.

Just grabbed this notepad as my first Kindle App. I haven't felt the need to download any other apps because I basically just want my Kindle for reading. However, I've been somewhat wishing that Kindle came with some sort of notepad type application. Well, one dollar later and now it does! Totally worth it. If I'm really into a book and suddenly remember something that I need to pick up at the store, the likelihood of me getting up to write it on the fridge is not real high...however, I don't mind jumping over to my notepad to jot a quick note (and this is quick - as quick as I can move my thumbs). I've had my Kindle for about two months and about a week after I got it I was at the grocery store and saw a funny sign. I wanted to write down what it said to share with Guido when I got home, but had nothing good to write on. I tried to figure if there was a way to take a note in Kindle and came up empty. I got home that night and I forgot the details of the sign just enough to make it not funny to repeat. I was able to catch it again a couple weeks later, but still...if I had this app then - well, I would've just jotted it down. It seems to have some really good features such as restore points and searching within a search. I'm excited to have this little app around and look forward to using it.

When I read a review of a book I might like, I download a sample. But sometimes I'm not in the mood for horror or history, so all those samples clogged up my K and when I went looking for that horror book I thought I would like, I couldn't find it. I ended up jotting notes which I promptly lost

Now I have notes to myself--horror, mystery, bio, history-- and my K is all cleaned up. I'll be able to find the book I want.

I also like the idea someone had about listing all the books in a series. I get tired of figuring out what comes next then forgetting.

I hadn't used the Notepad app in quite a while, but was away from home yesterday and needed to make some brainstorming notes because I knew I'd forget by the time I got home. So I whipped out my Kindle, which goes everywhere with me, and got to see Notepad version 1.1 in action for the first time.

All but one of the items listed in my Drawbacks section below in the original review were addressed, making this app even more user friendly.

Wordwrap has been added.

A "quick delete" feature has been added, used by holding down the delete key so it keeps going.

When saving or saving and exiting from a note you no longer have to click on an "okay" button. Instead a message at the top states that your note was saved and you keep going uninterrupted.

Additionally, a cut/copy and paste feature has also been added.

Great update from the makers!

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ORIGINAL REVIEW FOR v1.0:

For those looking for a sophisticated application for editing documents on your Kindle, this isn't it. Notepad is extremely basic in features and design, likely intentionally so in order to make the best use of the limits of the Kindle. There are no formatting options and no copy and paste functions.

Positives:

Notepad is very easy to use. You can download it, open it up, and start making notes without ever needing to read any help files. The layout, navigation, and menus are very intuitive.

There is a basic Help file included, accessed by pushing the Kindle Menu button. The Welcome Note that is included has keyboard shortcut tips.

There is a choice of two font styles and six font sizes for displaying, quickly accessed using the Kindle Aa button.

If you accidentally exit the program without saving first the app automatically saves the file for you. The next time you open the app you'll see a note titled something like "unsaved_1" on your list. You can open the note and rename it in the title bar.

For short notes, memos, and lists Notepad is very useful, especially if you're like me and take your Kindle with you almost anywhere.

You can move through the pages of a note by either using the Kindle page turn buttons or by scrolling up and down with the 5-way and cursor.

You can import text files you've created on your computer into the app. Finding the file storage folder on your Kindle is a bit tricky, but once you know where it is this is a great feature. (Instructions on how to find the folder are in the Help file.) You can also copy files you create on your Kindle with Notepad to your computer in order to back them up or in order to access for other uses.

Drawbacks:

Notepad does not have word wrap so it's easy to end up with words split between two lines. You have to learn to use the Kindle return button to force a line break to avoid this.

The size limit per note appears to be only 3099 characters. This isn't very much, especially since it includes spaces and hard returns as part of the count. Some of my series book lists that I imported were too big. When you try to open a file that is too large for the app you get a message that it's being truncated and loaded into a new file with the original file name followed by "copy" and a number.

Deleting only a few letters or words is relatively easy using the delete key. But if you need to delete several lines of text or a whole paragraph it's extremely cumbersome doing it one character at a time. There is no way to select a block of text to delete.

The app gives a confirmation message every time you save a note which requires you to click on an "okay" button before you can do anything else. This is annoying and, in my opinion, completely unnecessary.

Recommendation:

Even with the drawbacks listed I still highly recommend this app for anyone who owns a second generation or later Kindle. You never know when it will come in handy and for only a buck there's no reason not to get it.Read more ›

Monique, there is no way to accent the words. We have had a few requests to add support for diacritics/foreign languages but have no idea if/when we will add this. Especially since Kindle Apps are not available internationally.

We have one update that we have planned out. It won't have accented... Read More